Password re-usage identification based on input method editor analysis

Abstract

An approach is provided for password re-usage identification based on an Input Method Editor (IME) analysis. The approach analyzes a number of keystrokes received from a user at the IME that is running on the information handling system. A set of keystrokes received at the IME are identified as a possible new password that is being established by the user. A set of existing password data is searched with the search being based on the possible new password. The set of existing passwords are stored in a data store accessible from at least one of the processors of the information handling system. In response to the searching identifying that one of the existing passwords matches the possible new password, a notification, or warning, is displayed to the user.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]Technical Field[0002]This disclosure relates to alerting users to re-usage of a common password for multiple systems.[0003]Description of Related Art[0004]Annual cyber crime cost to the global economy is hundreds of billions of dollars, including both the gains to criminals and the costs to companies for recovery and defense. Popular social networks, web mail and online banking are frequently targeted by cyber-criminals. Login credentials and sensitive information is harvested through malware, phishing or server-side attacks. Users, such as employees, are often resistant to remember multiple passwords, and such resistance might cause these users to use their passwords, such as their corporate login passwords, on other sites, placing sensitive business data at risk. Organizations must ensure that employees and other users of enterprise applications do not reuse their credentials for non-enterprise apps. One of the most prevalent security rules is to r...

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Benefits of technology

The patent is about a way to identify if someone has used a new password based on the way they type on a computer. The system analyzes the way they type and compares it to existing password data to see if there is a match. If there is, the system will let the user know that their new password has been used before. This helps to improve security and prevent the same passwords from being used multiple times.

Problems solved by technology

Annual cyber crime cost to the global economy is hundreds of billions of dollars, including both the gains to criminals and the costs to companies for recovery and defense.

Users, such as employees, are often resistant to remember multiple passwords, and such resistance might cause these users to use their passwords, such as their corporate login passwords, on other sites, placing sensitive business data at risk.

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